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Plot Summary:
At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico's City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting for rescue.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hispanic
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Plan A (2021)
Plot Summary:
Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families were killed by the Nazis. They dream of retaliation on an epic scale for the Jewish people. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Max starts identifying with the group's monstrous plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Miriam (2006)
Plot Summary:
Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty years, from the German occupation of World War II through the Soviet era, and is based upon the true story of Miriam Shafer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Endless Trench (2019)
Plot Summary:
Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide to use a hole dug into their own home as a provisional hiding place. The fear of potential reprisals and the love they feel for one another will condemn them to an imprisonment that will last for more than 30 years.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Canada
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, touching, sad, hispanic
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Trees of Peace (2021)
Plot Summary:
In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Evil Twin (2007)
Plot Summary:
In coma for a decade, the twin So Yeon wakes finally up. But she can't recall many things. Her other twin sister, Hyo Jin, died in the accident that led to So Yeon's coma. Now that So Yeon has gained her consciousness back, strange things start to happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama, History, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tokyo Shaking (2021)
Plot Summary:
March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster. Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community in Tokyo is terrified by this tragic event and the fact that no one is capable of assessing its scope. Among them, Alexandra, a French executive newly arrived from Hong Kong to work in a bank, has to face this nuclear crisis. Torn apart between fol- lowing the company’s instructions and going back to her husband and children who are still in Hong Kong, she will find herself defending honor and given word, despite the pervading terror and chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lost Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)
Plot Summary:
A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano was located in the Sunda strait in Indonesia and its eruption resulted in tsunami, rains of coals and ash, and ended with a very hot tsunami. The eruption killed more than 36,000 people and those survived were left with burns.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing, epic, nature documentary, disaster movie
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The Belly of the Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the team built a raft. It accommodated 147 people: soldiers, sailors, several passengers and officers. The plan was for the boats to tow the raft. But the cable broke and the raft drifted into the open sea. For those who were on the raft, a harsh and cruel struggle for life began.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Trapped (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hotel guests become trapped by a raging fire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Oleg (2019)
Plot Summary:
Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the yoke of Andrzej, a Polish criminal.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Knuckleball (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
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The Tunnel (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Quake (2018)
Plot Summary:
A geologist races against time to save his estranged wife and two children when a devastating earthquake strikes Oslo, Norway.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: breathtaking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, action thriller, disaster movie
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Break (2019)
Plot Summary:
The company of three guys and two girls makes their way to the old funicular to have an unforgettable New Year’s Eve celebration at the top of the mountain. A fun adventure turns into a nightmare when the funicular stops over the abyss. Coldness, height and fear of a slow death make them reveal their true essence and get in a fight with each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological, disaster movie
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Plot Summary:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Coming Through the Rye (2015)
Plot Summary:
Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, road movie
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The Challenger Disaster (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the O-ring seals will fail and kill everyone on board. The Company, Marshall Space Flight and NASA made a business decision. He made a human decision.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Endless Night (2015)
Plot Summary:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings from experienced polar travellers about the onset of winter. At great sacrifice the expedition reaches Peary's base camp. Josephine refuses to go home and wants to spend winter in the hut. Only the young Inuit woman Allaka, who lives in an igloo and knows about the cold, stays with her. As the long nights draw nearer, Josephine realises she has more in common with this woman from a different world than she thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, psychological, tense, realistic, stylized
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The Lennon Report (2016)
Plot Summary:
The events on the night John Lennon was killed, seen through the eyes of those who lived it. The great men and women of NYC who did all they could to save a life, some without even knowing it was John Lennon himself. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Capsule (2015)
Plot Summary:
Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Roscosmos deep in Soviet Russia. Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Earthquake (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami (2013)
Plot Summary:
Deep underwater in the Marianas Trench an accident results in a devastating Tsunami that destroys the Hawaiian Islands as it continues toward the west coast. Panic ensues all up and down the western coast of North and South America. In an attempt to lessen its impact, scientists launch an underwater explosion that inadvertently makes the tsunami more powerful and focused on Los Angeles. Scientists rush to a solution while the military begins planning for the worst. Los Angeles begins emergency evacuation. Lives and loves are lost even as a brash young grad student comes up with a solution: start the mother of all earthquakes to counter the rushing torrent and raise the continental shelf off the coast of the United States.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating, disturbing, disaster movie
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The Day We Died (2020)
Plot Summary:
Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Burning Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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The Elevator: Three Minutes Can Change Your Life (2015)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller
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The Finest Hours (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, tense, breathtaking, scenic, stylized, suspense, factual, suspenseful
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Plot Summary:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, emotional, realistic, factual, compassionate, touching, suspenseful, intense
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The 33 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: factual, touching, suspense, tense, serious, period piece, captivating, inspirational, romantic, sad
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The Impossible (2012)
Plot Summary:
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 238000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, emotional, heartbreaking, motivational, touching, inspirational, realistic, sad, sentimental, tense